SCRLC Webinar: Basic Health Reference and MedlinePlus
2022-07-14 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Description: This one-hour webinar will provide an overview of the resources available on MedlinePlus, go over basic navigation on MedlinePlus, and will touch on basic health reference and other helpful resources to support your work.
This project is funded by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Cooperative Agreement Number UG4LM012347 with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester.
Learning Objectives:
After taking this tour, you should be able to:

Explain why MedlinePlus is an authoritative source of health information for consumers and patients
Identify how to find specific health topic information or tools in MedlinePlus
Identify how to find specific drugs, herbs and supplements information in MedlinePlus

Presenter: Bennie Finch (she/her) is an Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Network of the National Library of Medicine in Region 7. Her office is located at the UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, MA. Prior to her library work, Bennie was a clinical social worker with children and families for many years. Bennie enjoys all libraries, but her specific focus is public libraries and consumer health information.

LILRC Webinar: Drive Your Library's Marketing Decisions with Market Research
2022-07-14 13:30 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Many library workers have the best of intentions. They think they know their users very well, but they don’t. Many spend hours promoting events and programs, services, and resources, but there are so many “no shows,” or the services being promoted are not being used. This is simply because many library workers become heavily involved in marketing and promotional activities, but they fail to do their research. Marketing is often done backwards, or “upside down,” meaning that we engage in marketing activities and then follow up with assessment. This is known as upside down (or backwards) marketing. When engaging in marketing activities, library workers must study their users first to determine their needs, expectations, and desires. Data should drive your library’s marketing activities. In this 90 minute practical webinar, the presenter will describe the process of conducting market research and explain why it’s so important to study your audience first before endeavouring in costly and time consuming marketing activities.
Learning Outcomes:
In this 90 minute webinar, participants will learn how to:

understand market research, and how it applies to libraries and information
organizations distinguish between the concepts of market research and marketing research
identify your target market and target audiences
utilize primary and secondary research techniques to study your library community
engage in self-assessment instruments such as a SWOT analysis and perceptual map

Presenter:
Mark Aaron Polger is an academic librarian and information literacy instructor who has been working in libraries since 1988. He received his MLIS degree in 2000 from the University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada) and has worked as a librarian in public, hospital, and academic libraries. Currently, he is the Coordinator of Library Outreach at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY). He has been deeply engaged in working in various library signage activities since 2012. He has written about library signage audits in journals and other publications and has presented nationally at library conferences.
In September 2021, he published Library Signage and Wayfinding Design: Communicating Effectively with Your User (ALA editions). He is also an accidental library marketer, as most of his professional experience as a librarian involves the marketing of library services and resources. His research interests include library marketing, outreach, and UX (user experience) design. Currently, he is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the open-access, peer reviewed journal Marketing Libraries Journal, which was launched in Fall 2017.

ESLN Webinar: Ready, Set, Policy! Using the 2022 "Collection Management" Guide
2022-07-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Presenter: Stephanie Cole Adams
Based on requests from public libraries across the state, ESLN and PULISDO partnered on the creation of an annotated “2022 Public Library Collection Management Policy Template & Guide.” Join us for this 1-hour session on using this resource to update or adopt policies to be ready for materials challenges…and more.
We invite you to submit a question for the presenter – there will be a place to do that during the registration process. The deadline to submit questions is July 12
Free to ESLN Members. Registration is required. This webinar will be recorded.
This session is sponsored by the Empire State Library Network and PULISDO. If you have any questions, contact Caitlin Kenney (ckenney@wnylrc.org).

NNYLN Webinar: 404 Page Not Found! and the Rotting of the Internet
2022-07-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The Internet is rotting! Every day millions of links from websites, PDFs, and search engine results become broken un-resolving 404 messages. This isn’t a new problem. The Internet has always been a sea of websites that come and go as servers age, businesses change priorities and new information arises. Our dependence on access to information that exists primarily online has changed. A constantly shifting sea of broken links represents a potential loss of human knowledge in a world where consistent access to knowledge is critical.
Can this knowledge be preserved? How does the dominance of social media and corporate control of the Internet impact what knowledge is available?
This session will discuss:
• ‘Link Rot’ and ‘Content Drift’ – definitions and their causes.
• Academic work currently assessing the problem.
• Initiatives underway to preserve the Internet.

LILRC Webinar: US Holocaust Memorial Museum's History Unfolded - US Newspapers and the Holocaust Project
2022-07-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
How did newspapers on Long Island and throughout New York State report on Holocaust era events such as the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses, the German American Bund rally at Madison Square Garden and FDR’s plan to create a free port for refugees at Fort Ontario in Oswego? The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust project needs your help to find out.
In this remote/hands-on workshop, participants will learn what the History Unfolded citizen history project is, engage in a model program (a “research sprint”), and then discuss how the History Unfolded project can be a great fit for libraries looking to get patrons and staff using their microfilmed or digitized historical newspapers collections.
Program attendees must create a free History Unfolded account before the event in order to participate in the research sprint. Please create your History Unfolded account here in order to participate fully in this workshop.

METRO Webinar: Choose Your Own EDI Adventure with Dr. Kawanna Bright
2022-07-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) as topics are not only relevant to the work of libraries, archives, and museums, but often integral to the experiences of those who work in these organizations.
Given the importance of understanding the impact and influence of EDI, and all of the various ways that it can manifest, it can sometimes be difficult to know where to start or where to focus our attention.
So, rather than try to briefly touch on the myriad EDI topics of interest, this workshop will take a more personalized approach where those who plan to attend will select the EDI topic(s) to be addressed.
Ready to take on this EDI Adventure? Sign up for the workshop and be sure to complete the quick topic selection survey by Tuesday, May 31st: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EDIadventure-survey
Please review our Code of Conduct, our Statement on Viewpoints, and details on Interpreter Services here: https://metro.org/code-of-conduct

Erie Canal Museum Event: Lunchtime Lecture w/ Pamela Vittorio - Weighing In: A Day in the Life of the Syracuse Weighmasters
2022-07-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
During this talk, we will take a close look at weighmasters including the process they went through to become one, their interactions with other people who worked at the weighlock, the boatmen, and what happened in the weighlock buildings. Available on both Zoom and in-person. Register at: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/lecture/

Erie Canal Museum Event: Beers, Bikes, and Barges - Schenectady
2022-07-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Druthers Brewing Company, 221 Harborside Drive, Schenectady, NY, 12305, United States
Join the Schenectady County Historical Society and the Erie Canal Museum for this hour-long cycling tour through Schenectady looking at the city’s Erie Canal and brewing history as you ride along the historic Mohawk River. The ride begins and ends at Druthers Brewing Company where you will be treated to a beer as part of your ride as well as a brief history of the brewery itself. Register at: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/beers-bikes-and-barges/

Webinar: You Got Your Chocolate in My Peanut Butter or How to Facilitate Learning/Programming in a Hybrid Environment
2022-07-27 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
This workshop will help you ask the right questions to ensure you match the best delivery method to your objectives and audience. In addition, we will touch on some tools and tricks that will make your learning and programs participatory, useful, and memorable.
In the last three years of facilitation and programming, we went from:

A combination of mostly face-to-face with some virtual experiences, then
All virtual all the time, then
Mostly virtual with some component of face-to-face, and now
“What do we do now?”

It is not easy to figure out if you want to offer an all face-to-face experience, an online-only experience, or create a hybrid experience that will best serve your audience’s needs and meet your learning/programming objectives.
About the Presenter:
Maurice Coleman [he/him/his] is the Principal of Coleman & Associates. As a trainer, coach, and keynote speaker, Maurice helps organizations improve their human processes and use of technology, expand their internal/external communications, and broaden their focus and implementation of EDI activities.
He has facilitated experiences for organizations such as Lyrasis, the American Library Association, Texas Library Association, WebJunciton, Library 2.0, the San Antonio Public Library, Urban Librarians Unite, the Library of Virginia, and PCI Webinars.
Live captioning will be provided.
This webinar will be recorded and a recording will be shared with all registrants afterward.

**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one contact hour.**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

Erie Canal Museum Event: Tour the Towpath
2022-07-30 - 2022-07-31 | Erie Canal Village, 5789 Rome-New London Road, Rome, NY, 13440, United States
Looking for an adventurous way to experience New York’s brand new Empire State Trail? Join us for the 5th annual Tour the Towpath bicycle ride along the Historic Old Erie Canal from Rome to Syracuse. Experience 42 miles of beautiful, off-road trail riding AND the new Empire State Trail through Syracuse. Explore historic communities built around the Erie Canal. Complete the ride in one or two days with camping accommodations at the mid-point in Canastota.
Numerous special events will occur over the weekend for riders including tours of the Canastota Canal Town Museum, music and a car show at ZEMS on Saturday night, blacksmith demonstrations at Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum, an after party at the Erie Canal Museum on Sunday afternoon, and the Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival right down the street from the endpoint, to name a few. Cyclists will also be provided with a ride guide including coupons to special deals at local businesses!
The ride begins at 9AM each day, with registration on July 30 beginning at 8AM. On trail ride support is provided by the team at Mello-Velo Bike Shop and Café. Day 1 begins at the Erie Canal Village, 5789 Rome-New London Rd, Rome, NY 13440 and concludes at ZEMS Ice Cream, 124 W Hickory St, Canastota, NY 13032, where camping facilities will be provided. Day 2 begins at ZEMS and goes to the Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Blvd E, Syracuse, NY 13202. Please make arrangements in advance for getting to and from start/end points. Accommodations will be available to shuttle gear to camp site and end site.
Cost is $50 for the first rider and $30 for each additional rider in a party.
Register at: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/tour-the-towpath/

Erie Canal Museum Event: Beers, Bikes, and Barges - Onondaga Lake
2022-08-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Meier’s Creek Brewing Company, 720 Van Rensselaer Street, Syracuse, NY, 13204, United States
Join the Erie Canal Museum for this hour-long cycling tour around Syracuse’s Inner Harbor and Onondaga Lake, and learn about the lake’s canal history! The ride begins and ends at Meier’s Creek Brewing Company’s Inner Harbor location where you will be treated to a beer as part of your ride. Register at: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/beers-bikes-and-barges/

CLRC's Sustainability SIG Meetings
2022-08-12 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join us for a meeting of CLRC’s Sustainability Special Interest Group!
We meet every other month on the second Friday at 10 a.m.
This group meets to discuss how best to reach our community to convey a sense of urgency regarding the state of our planet. Our focus is on the three pillars of sustainability: sustainable practices are environmentally sound, socially equitable, and economically feasible.

Meeting ID: 885 7044 8340
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct.

CLRC's Sustainability SIG Meetings
2022-08-12 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The August 12 meeting has been canceled. We’ll see you on October 14!
Join us for a meeting of CLRC’s Sustainability Special Interest Group!
We meet every other month on the second Friday at 10 a.m.
This group meets to discuss how best to reach our community to convey a sense of urgency regarding the state of our planet. Our focus is on the three pillars of sustainability: sustainable practices are environmentally sound, socially equitable, and economically feasible.

Meeting ID: 885 7044 8340
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct.

WNYLRC Webinar: Providing Career Resources at Your Library
2022-08-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Job resources and applications are increasingly only available online. Learn about job bank sites, training, and other career services that employers and local governments are using to facilitate applications, assessments, and virtual job fairs. You will be able to provide your patrons with accurate information about career resources and training opportunities, and assist them in locating open jobs, posting and searching the NYS Job Bank Site, attending online jobs fairs, navigating the Virtual Career Center, and more.
About the Presenter:
Kelly Kiebala is a 4th generation Medinan, mother of two – Tobias and Lily. She was formerly the Director of the Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council, Orleans County Chamber of Commerce, and a Trustee for the Village of Medina. In addition to her role as the Employment & Training Director for Orleans County, Kelly serves as the Chair of the Leadership Orleans Steering Committee. The Orleans County Career Center is home to the Orleans County Job Development Agency that assists employers, the unemployed, underemployed, and the emerging workforce with employment and training needs. The department works closely with a wide range of public and private sector partners. It is part of the GLOW (Genesee-Livingston-Orleans-Wyoming) Workforce Development Area.

LILRC Webinar: The Jews of Long Island 1705-1918
2022-08-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In an engaging narrative, The Jews of Long Island tells the story of how Jewish communities were established and developed east of New York City, from Great Neck to Greenport and Cedarhurst to Sag Harbor. Including peddlers, farmers, and factory workers struggling to make a living, as well as successful merchants and even wealthy industrialists like the Guggenheims.
Presenter:
Brad Kolodny spent six years researching how, when, and why Jewish families settled and thrived there. Archival material, including census records, newspaper accounts, never-before-published photos, and personal family histories illuminate Jewish life and experiences during these formative years. With over 4,400 names of people who lived in Nassau and Suffolk counties prior to the end of World War I, The Jews of Long Island is a fascinating history of those who laid the foundation for what has become the fourth largest Jewish community in the United States today. Brad Kolodny is president and founder of the Jewish Historical Society of Long Island and the author of Seeking Sanctuary: 125 Years of Synagogues on Long Island.

Erie Canal Museum Event: History Happy Hour
2022-08-17 17:00 - 20:00 | Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
Grab all your fun-loving friends, and get ready for the Erie Canal Museum’s 2022 HISTORY HAPPY HOUR series, bringing history to you at some of your favorite local Syracuse businesses. The History Happy Hours series continues on August 17th at the Erie Canal Museum, bringing back everyone’s favorite History Happy Hour tradition of drinks in the Locktender’s Garden.
Join Museum staff for a traditional happy hour starting at 5PM, then at 6:30pm enjoy a special presentation about the Weighlock Building. There will also be music from Harmonic Dirt and demonstrations by the team at Mello-Velo on how to use the Museum’s new bike repair rack to do basic repairs on your bicycle. Museum staff will continue to be available to discuss history, beer, bicycling, or anything else for that matter until 8pm.
Admission to the Museum is free with a cash bar. We will also have tastings from Talking Cursive Brewing Company, Willow Rock Brewing Company, Grow Brewing, and Fall Street Brewing. We hope you can join us for this fun night of history, beer, and friendship!

Webinar: Transformational Assessment - Measuring What Matters
2022-08-18 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
This introductory webinar provides an overview of library assessment including strategies for developing an effective library assessment program and projects.
Topics include:

an introduction to the phases of assessment,
an outcomes-based approach to assessment,
developing and implementing an assessment plan,
method selection, and
communicating results to key stakeholders.

About the Presenter:
As the Director of Performance and User Engagement, Maurini Strub applies critical thinking, user insight, and best practice measurement methodology to manage, analyze, and apply high-quality, actionable data that improves organization performance, informs decision making, and shapes value propositions. She employs strategies that rely upon incorporating user research, evaluation, assessment, and improvement into all River Campus Libraries (RCL) programs, services, and resources. Maurini is also responsible for building an organizational culture of assessment by coaching RCL staff as they develop their knowledge and competencies in assessment and evaluation.
Live captioning will be provided.
This webinar will be recorded and a recording will be shared with all registrants afterward.

**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one contact hour.**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

Erie Canal Museum Event: Beers, Bikes, and Barges - Utica
2022-08-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Bagg’s Square Brewing Company, 300 Main Street, Utica, NY, 13501, United States
Join the Oneida County Historical Center and the Erie Canal Museum for this hour-long cycling tour around Utica looking at the city’s Erie Canal and brewing history as you ride along the historic Mohawk River. The ride begins and ends at Bagg’s Square Brewing Company where you will be treated to a beer as part of your ride as well as a brief history of the brewery itself. Register at: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/beers-bikes-and-barges/

Erie Canal Museum Event: Tuesday on the Towpath
2022-08-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
Join staff of the Erie Canal Museum on this recreational bike ride along the route of the Erie Canal in Syracuse, New York. Learn about the 19th century Canal in downtown Syracuse, and explore some of the city’s historic and contemporary Canal systems, including the Onondaga Creekwalk and the Inner Harbor. Meet at the Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse. Helmets are required. The bike ride is free and open to the public.

LILRC Webinar: A Conversation with Novelist Jamie Ford - Author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
2022-08-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join LILRC to meet bestselling author Jamie Ford and to discuss his work, including his new acclaimed novel, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (Atria, August 2, 2022), in a moderated conversation. LILRC members who attend will be eligible to win hardcover copies of the book as door prizes.
About the Book:
“Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living.
As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help.
Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America.
As painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn’t the only thing she’s inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who’s loved her through all of her genetic memories. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate price.”
Source: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Many-Daughters-of-Afong-Moy/Jamie-Ford/9781982158217
About Jamie Ford:
Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Hoiping, China to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name Ford, thus confusing countless generations. His debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list and went on to win the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages. Having grown up in Seattle, he now lives in Montana with his wife and a one-eyed pug.

LibraryWorks Webinar: Dealing with Hostile and Potentially Dangerous Library Users (and Staff) Behaviors
2022-09-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Online via LibraryWorks, NY, United States
CLRC is offering our members up to 20 seats at the upcoming LibraryWorks Webinar, Dealing with Hostile and Potentially Dangerous Library Users (and Staff) Behaviors.
Good manners and a friendly demeanor will ensure that frontline library personnel can handle most library customer issues. But what if being courteous is not enough? Do you and your co-workers know what to do if someone is emotionally bullying or physically threatening to staff or library visitors? Belligerent? Acting out because of drugs, alcohol, illness, stress, or cognitive issues? Refusing to leave? Caught stealing or damaging property?
The first step is to build the foundation for a safe and welcoming library. Addressing hostile and potentially dangerous behaviors begins with planning, which includes engaging your community in conversations about principles and values, creating policies that are reasonable and enforceable, and evaluating the physical plant. Training your library’s personnel means establishing guidelines for consistent behavior that ensures both staff and visitors are treated fairly and with respect. The awareness, attitude, and actions of library employees are the first defenses against customers who are AOA (Angry on Arrival). However, to be successful employees need support from supervisors and managers, working together to protect library employees, customers, vendors, and visitors as well as your workplace’s property.
Topics include how we influence the behaviors of others; setting limits on what is acceptable; preventing escalation: don’t engage emotionally; distractions, alternatives, and disengagement; and trusting your gut: when to call authorities.
Following this webinar, you will know how to:

Ensure everyone on the staff knows what to do in emergencies.
Lower the drama of difficult encounters with library customers.
Develop consistent responses to challenging customer behavior.
Improve basic security features of your workplace.

Presenter: Pat Wagner is a trainer and consultant with over 40 years of experience working for libraries, universities, local government, nonprofits, and small businesses.
Registration closes on August 30 at 5 p.m. You will be sent a link to the webinar within 24 hours of the start time.

CDLC Webinar: Introduction to OpenRefine
2022-09-13 10:30 - 12:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This event will be held via Zoom webinar.
Do you deal with library data or metadata? Perhaps in your library catalog records, digital repository metadata, or even spreadsheets? As the amount of data we deal with grows, so do the errors and inconsistencies in that data, and the manual correction of these issues becomes even more time-consuming. To help you with your data clean-up needs, this course will review OpenRefine, the software which allows users to quickly view, identify inconsistencies in, and enhance a variety of data.
Learning objectives for this session include:

Learn how to download and install the OpenRefine software
Understand OpenRefine’s data-editing capabilities
Determine ways OpenRefine can be useful in your daily library work

CDLC is offering this workshop in cooperation with Amigos Library Services. Emily Nimsakont is the presenter. She is the Digital Librarian at RStudio, a data science software company. She holds a master’s degree in library science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the current president of the Nebraska Library Association.
This workshop is sponsored by CDLC’s Regional Automation Advisory Committee (RAAC).

LILRC Webinar: Your Management Philosophy
2022-09-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Your Management Philosophy [Session 1]
Before you can craft overarching HR philosophies for your organization, you need to know who you are as a manager. Participants will learn how to determine what their management values are and how their values relate to the library’s values before crafting a management philosophy statement.
Laying the Foundation: Developing Your HR Philosophies
Personnel is usually over 50% of a library’s budget, but few libraries have dedicated HR professionals navigating the ins and outs of HR. In this 4-part series, participants will learn how to lay a foundation for what type of manager they want to be and how to create an HR philosophy for their library that aligns with their library’s mission, vision, and values. This program is the first in a four part series, all of which can be attended as a stand alone or as a continuous learning experience.
Presenters:
Kate Hall is the Executive Director of the Northbrook Public Library after serving as Director at the New Lenox Public Library and in various library positions in the Chicagoland area for over 20 years. In her 11 years as a library director, Kate has been in leadership positions in state and national library groups including the American Library Association, Illinois Library Association, and Reaching Across Illinois Library System. She has served on the committee and chaired Director’s University, an intensive training for new Illinois Public Library Directors. Kate is the recipient of the 2021 Illinois Library Association Librarian of the Year Award and has just launched Illinois Libraries Present, a new statewide joint programming cooperative.
Kathy Parker was the director of the Glenwood-Lynwood (IL) Public Library District from 2002-2018 after serving as Assistant Director at the Harvey (IL) Public Library.
She has worked in public and private libraries for over 40 years in nearly every department and co-founded Director’s University. She has served on numerous state committees including the Illinois Library Association and has served as library trustee for her local library and the regional library system, Reaching Across Illinois Library System. She was the 2016 recipient of American Library Associations Trustee Citation award. After retiring in 2018, Kathy launched the kathyparker consulting firm which provides training to trustees and new directors.
This program will not be recorded.

SENYLRC Webinar: Public Student Loan Forgiveness Workshop
2022-09-13 15:30 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This session, provided by nationally recognized PSLF expert Betsy Mayotte from The Institute of Student Loan Advisors, will explain in detail the eligibility requirements for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. The session will also go into detail as to the temporary waivers for PSLF announced in October that opens up eligibility for borrowers who may have been on the wrong plan or had the wrong loans in the past.

Webinar: Sustainable Living Library Programs
2022-09-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Kroski is one of many who opted for the freedom of building a self-sufficient and sustainable way of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn just what it takes to plan, organize, and run sustainability programs for patrons in libraries, both rural and urban. Programs range from gardening topics to teaching pioneer crafts, to homesteading events, and to hosting preservation programs.
About the Presenter:
Ellyssa Valenti Kroski is the Director of Information Technology and Marketing at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 75 books. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University, and an international conference speaker. She can be found at: http://www.amazon.com/author/ellyssa
Live captioning will be provided.
This webinar will be recorded and a recording will be shared with all registrants afterward.

**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one contact hour.**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

Erie Canal Museum Event: Beers, Bikes, and Barges - Seneca Falls
2022-09-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Seneca Falls Museum of Waterways and Industry, 89 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, NY, 13148, United States
Join the Seneca Falls Museum of Waterways and Industry and the Erie Canal Museum for this hour-long cycling tour around Seneca Falls that looks at its unique canal history! The ride begins at the Seneca Falls Museum of Waterways and Industry and ends at Fall Street Brewing, right down the street, where you will be treated to a beer as part of your ride as well as a brief history of the brewery itself.
Register at: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/beers-bikes-and-barges/

SCRLC Webinar: Effective Health Communication and Health Literacy - Understanding the Connection
2022-09-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
How are health communication and health literacy connected? How can you be more effective in providing health information to consumers, patients, clients, library patrons and your community? This 1 hour webinar introduces the concepts of health literacy and health communication, outlines components of clear health communication, and identifies online resources from NLM, government agencies and other recognized resources for health literacy and health communication.
Learning Objectives:
Define health literacy​
Describe universal precautions for health literacy​
Name 3 components of clear health communication ​
Identify 3 online resources you can use as tools to promote health literacy​​​
Presenter: Sean Corning (they/them), Education & Outreach Coordinator | Network of the National Library of Medicine, Region 7

Library Assistants and Support Staff - LA SIG
2022-09-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Third Tuesdays at 2:00 pm
CLRC offers a communication network among our region’s Library Assistants, Paraprofessionals and Support Staff through a Special Interest Group (LA SIG).
Our interests include:
* recognizing all library support staff employed in CLRC member libraries
* furthering the professional development & job enrichment of support staff
* enhancing the professional image of support staff within the library community
Join us on Zoom for our September get-together.
This month’s topic: Welcome Back – How Was Summer in Your Library?
REGISTER HERE
Contact Anna Dobkowski with any questions.

WNYLRC Webinar: NY State's Budget and You: A Primer on Libraries and the State Budget Process
2022-09-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Does it sometimes feel as if State Aid for Libraries is a mystery until it pops out of the oven on April 1st each year? Would you like to know more about how the cake is baked? What’s in the mix? When are good times to add yeast and turn up the heat? In this noontime webinar we’ll explore:

How the economy affects the size of the State’s revenue pie each year;
How the State funding pie is sliced and where Libraries fit in;
Following the State Budget Calendar to time and target advocacy;
Finding State Library Aid in the Governor’s Proposed Operating and Capital Budgets;
Following the Legislative process – timing and importance of Senate and Assembly “one-house” budget resolutions
Quickly finding the result in the Adopted Budget Bills

About the Presenter:
Ken Stone has been heavily involved in governmental finance for over 40 years, beginning as an Evaluator for the U.S. General Accounting Office (now known as the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and moving on to responsible positions in City and County governments. Upper management positions included service as Program Development and Audit Manager (budget and internal audit) for the City of Anaheim, California; Budget Director for the City of Spokane, Washington; and currently, Deputy Director – Chief Financial Officer of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System, a regional library system serving the citizens of Erie County, New York through 37 library facilities and 2 high-tech mobile library vehicles covering a territory of 1,043 square miles. Mr. Stone possesses a Master of Public Administration Degree from California State University at Fullerton and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the same institution.
Mr. Stone enjoys teaching and interacting with students learning about public budgeting concepts and realities in PAD 601 Public Budgeting at SUNY Buffalo State. He also actively participates in the Buffalo-Niagara Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), serving as Chapter President in 2018 through June 2019 and Treasurer from January 2020-present.

LILRC Webinar: The End of Her - Racing Against Alzheimer's to Solve a Murder with Author Wayne Hoffman
2022-09-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join LILRC to hear author and journalist Wayne Hoffman speak on his recent memoir, The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimers to Solve A Murder (Heliotrope Books, 2022).
The End of Her, Hoffman’s nonfiction debut, is a true crime memoir about his efforts to uncover the facts about his great-grandmother’s murder, while watching his own mother’s decline from dementia. One reviewer called the book “a murder mystery wrapped like a delicious knish around a familial love story,” while a historian praised it as “meticulously researched and skillfully written.” Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, calling it “riveting” and “a unique addition to the cold case subgenre, and a powerful mix of true crime and family memoir.”
From: http://waynehoffmanwriter.com/index.php?/about-the-book/
About Wayne Hoffman:
Wayne Hoffman has published three novels: Hard and its sequel An Older Man are both published by Bear Bones Books, while the Stonewall Book Award-winning Sweet Like Sugar is published by Kensington Books. He is also a contributor to several anthologies. By day, Wayne is a journalist: His cultural reporting has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Village Voice, The Nation, The Forward, Billboard and The Advocate. He is executive editor of Tablet Magazine.
